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squeeze through
Also, squeeze by. Manage to pass, win, or survive by a narrow margin, as in We squeezed through the second round of playoffs, or There was just enough food stored in the cabin for us to squeeze by until the hurricane ended. This idiom uses squeeze in the sense of “succeed by means of compression.” [c. 1700] Also see squeak by.
Example Sentences
The animal got stuck after attempting to squeeze through the gate at a property in Banstead, Surrey, according to the RSPCA.
He said the current party leadership needed to "change course" and suggested that these policies were "driving away our own voters, and letting Reform squeeze through."
If we were to squeeze through small cracks in his mind’s cavern walls or crawl down its miniaturized hallways toward Erickson's nerve center, we might find ourselves in a room with a broken printer.
But the Legislature habitually tries to squeeze through more spending long after the annual budget has been enacted.
But that treble dream ended when they proved to be simply no match for a Gloucestershire side who came from nowhere to squeeze through in the Southern Group, then followed it up with three straight Edgbaston wins.
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